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NEW HAVEN — For a tournament selling tennis and star power, the Thursday announcement was significant. The Connecticut Open, a WTA event at New Haven's Connecticut Tennis Center, will hold a men's legends event for the second year in a row. This time, though, John McEnroe will participate. McEnroe, one of the great tennis players, agreed to play a Friday night match in New Haven against Jim Courier on Aug. 28. Fairfield's James Blake returns to face Andy Roddick in the Thursday night match. Both men's matches will take place after the night session of the WTA event. The Thursday night match follows a quarterfinal match, the Friday night event after the...

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NEW HAVEN — For a tournament selling tennis and star power, the Thursday announcement was significant.The Connecticut Open, a WTA event at New Haven's Connecticut Tennis Center, will hold a men's legends event for the second year in a row. This time,...

Connecticut Open tennis tournament director Anne Worcester has been trying to get American teenage sensation Madison Keys to come to New Haven for the past few years.After Keys, 19, advanced to the semifinals of the Australian Open last week, she...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Venus Williams lost her quarterfinal match against Madison Keys on Wednesday at the Australian Open. Serena Williams, the other sister in a family that has won a combined 25 Grand Slam singles titles, will attempt to right the wrong...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Rafael Nadal kept telling anyone who would listen that his fitness levels wouldn't stand up to the rigors of a two-week Grand Slam tournament. Tomas Berdych proved him right. Nadal, who had played only eight matches since last...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Fireworks lit up the sky above Rod Laver Arena the moment Venus Williams completed her fourth-round win at the Australian Open on Monday night.
It's been that kind of tournament so far for the 34-year-old, seven-time Grand Slam...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Just like Serena Williams eight years ago, Victoria Azarenka entered the Australian Open as an unseeded player after an injury-plagued season.
Williams had won the Australian title twice before then — Azarenka can match...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Serena Williams claims to suffer from nerves and jitters before her first-round matches at the Grand Slams.
She certainly didn't show it, winning her first set in 21 minutes on Tuesday night on the way to a 6-0, 6-4 win over Alison...

Derek Jeter went out in style at Yankee Stadium Thursday, delivering a game-winning single in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Yankees beat the Orioles, 6-5. Jeter was 2-for-5 with a run scored and three RBI in his final game in the Bronx.
Then it...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Roger Federer battled back from two sets down and double match point to defeat 20th seed Gael Monfils 4-6, 3-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-2 to reach the semifinals of the U.S. Open on Thursday night.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Marin Cilic completed a sensational set of semifinal shockers by upsetting 17-time grand slam winner Roger Federer 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday to reach the final of the U.S. Open. Croatian 14th seed Cilic's opponent in Monday's final...

NEW YORK — Serena Williams will attempt to salvage a difficult year and Caroline Wozniacki will attempt to jump-start a career on Sunday.When they meet in the U.S. Open final in 23,000-seat Ashe Stadium, Williams will be the overwhelming favorite, as...

About that Novak Djokovic-Roger Federer U.S. Open final? Never mind. The top-ranked Djokovic was bounced in the semifinals by Japan's Kei Nishikori Saturday, just hours before Federer was eliminated by Marin Cilic in the...

NEW YORK — Marin Cilic completed a sensational set of shocking semi-finals by upsetting 17-times grand slam winner Roger Federer 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday to reach the final of the U.S. Open.Croatian 14th seed Cilic's opponent in Monday's final will be...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - World number one Serena Williams swept past good friend Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark 6-3 6-3 in the U.S. Open final on Sunday to move into the record books with her 18th grand slam title. The third straight and sixth overall U.S....

Derek Jeter, who was a kid in helping the Yankees to the World Series title in 1996, is now a man, an old man by baseball standards. He made his official goodbye at Yankee Stadium on Sunday. He said, "I've had the greatest job in the world....

NEW YORK — Croatia's Marin Cilic swept past Japan's Kei Nishikori 6-3 6-3 6-3 to win the U.S. Open on Monday and reach the pinnacle of the sport one year after a doping ban kept him out of the year's final grand slam.The big-serving Croatian overwhelmed a...

Caroline Wozniacki will try to become the first five-time champion in the history of the WTA event now known as the Connecticut Open, Aug. 15-23 in New Haven.The following week, she will try to win a Grand Slam for the first time at the U.S. Open.All...

NEW HAVEN — Alison Riske knew she was supposed to play it close to the vest.
The young American, who grew up in Pittsburgh, had just won her first-round match Sunday at the Connecticut Open and needed to move on, but she just couldn't. Not yet.
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NEW HAVEN — When Simona Halep was asked Sunday who her toughest opponent is, the answer came quickly and without hesitation.
"Maria Sharapova," Halep said. "She's beat me five times already."
Sharapova won't be in New Haven this...